Advice Quotes
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Nobody can give you wiser advice than yourself.
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There are only so many letters in the alphabet. When I talk to young musicians or authors and they ask for advice, I say, You gotta learn all the letters of your own personal alphabet. With music, you need to know all the different kinds of music and everything in and around your given instrument.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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If I had to give one piece of advice to incoming college freshmen, I'd say always be true to yourself.
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If I were again beginning my studies, I would follow the advice of Plato and start with mathematics.
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Think about all of the non-entrepreneurial advice and resources you need when building a company. You need lawyers, accountants, financial experts.
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A leader must have the courage to act against an expert's advice.
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It is not unprofessional to give free legal advice, but advertising that the first visit will be free is a bit like a fox telling chickens he will not bite them until they cross the threshold of the hen house.
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He had only one vanity; he thought he could give advice better than any other person.
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I always pass on good advice. It is the only thing to do with it. It is never of any use to oneself.
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I don't take investment advice from wealth managers. I have grown several businesses from scratch and amassed many millions from my publishing empire - why would I take advice from someone who has never experienced that?
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My best advice to anybody who has a child with a disability is to really find the tools for that person to thrive and find what their true passions are, because the rest will follow.
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I was told once by a leftwing scholar that as a Marxist, you have to do two things: always be optimistic and always have a view about everything. That advice still sounds good to me.
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My advice for raising daughters is to spend time with them doing things you both enjoy.
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Give not advice without being asked, and when desired, do it briefly.
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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What does it mean to have a mayor who has an organizing background? It means I have allies and partners on whom I can call for advice - and that are also holding my feet to the fire already.
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My main piece of advice would be don't worry about being published - just write a really good book, but also don't be afraid to write a bad book. Give yourself permission to fail, and don't be afraid.
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When you counsel someone, you should appear to be reminding him of something he had forgotten, not of the light he was unable to see.
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My father told me once not to expect anything from anybody so I wouldn't be disappointed. If somebody was nice and did nice things for me, I should be overjoyed, but I shouldn't go through life expecting it, which is very good advice.
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I can give substantive advice to the administration, the president's campaign, or any campaign that would ask for it. And, of course, when I speak I can talk about my views on policy and I have been supportive of the president's policy on leading foreign-policy issues.
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Every time a young girl comes in and asks me for advice, if you start your conversation with, 'How hard is it as a black woman,' or, 'How hard is it as a woman,' I turn you around. Because I cannot - we cannot look at the roadblocks and see the road at the same time.
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It is always a silly thing to give advice, but to give good advice is absolutely fatal.
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Don't be discouraged if your children reject your advice. Years later they will offer it to their own offspring.
